2008-11-13, 19:56
Frist of all, thanks to all of you creating this outstanding MediaCenter!
I´ve searched the forums a bit and came across some people saying the (3:2 I guess) pulldown and such does not work properly in XBMC. I´ve tried this out a bit myself and I actually notice a pretty big amount of "hz-jumping" (stuttering?), mostly when playing HD-movies in 24Hz (h264 etc.), but also in 25/50Hz movies. My TV is set at 1280x720 since this was the only resolution it could display in 60Hz with picture proportions shown correctly.
When trying the same material in for example MediaPortal (with CoreAVC or ffdshow) everything plays smooth, or atleast as smooth as it can with the Hz not corresponding between the TV and the movie. But still, it´s definitly watchable. Which I sadly must say the same material in XBMC isn´t, due to the jumping which seemes to be kind of irregular - first a couple of frames that plays along nicely and then a small "jump", a few goog frames, jump and so on.
In MediaPortal with the external codecs described activated this "jumping" is much more regular, creating a much more smooth movment of the picture.
Am I perhaps doing something completely wrong with the settings? (Think I´ve tried most of them on or off etc.) Or is it in fact that xbmc does not handle pulldowns as good as the other codecs out there, and if so, is there any chanse this might be fixed i future versions of xbmc? I without a doubt think xbmc is way a head of alla other mediacenter softwares todag when it comes to design and compability. But as long as this pulldown problem (if it is indeed a real problem and not just something that I made up =)) exists I guess I have to stick to Windows and just drag drop files (to Mediplayer classic) or perhaps MediaPortal but I really don´t like messing around that much with all the codecs for everything... Bottom line, I would really like to use xbmc cause I think it´s great. But for now, I can´t.
Thanks
I´ve searched the forums a bit and came across some people saying the (3:2 I guess) pulldown and such does not work properly in XBMC. I´ve tried this out a bit myself and I actually notice a pretty big amount of "hz-jumping" (stuttering?), mostly when playing HD-movies in 24Hz (h264 etc.), but also in 25/50Hz movies. My TV is set at 1280x720 since this was the only resolution it could display in 60Hz with picture proportions shown correctly.
When trying the same material in for example MediaPortal (with CoreAVC or ffdshow) everything plays smooth, or atleast as smooth as it can with the Hz not corresponding between the TV and the movie. But still, it´s definitly watchable. Which I sadly must say the same material in XBMC isn´t, due to the jumping which seemes to be kind of irregular - first a couple of frames that plays along nicely and then a small "jump", a few goog frames, jump and so on.
In MediaPortal with the external codecs described activated this "jumping" is much more regular, creating a much more smooth movment of the picture.
Am I perhaps doing something completely wrong with the settings? (Think I´ve tried most of them on or off etc.) Or is it in fact that xbmc does not handle pulldowns as good as the other codecs out there, and if so, is there any chanse this might be fixed i future versions of xbmc? I without a doubt think xbmc is way a head of alla other mediacenter softwares todag when it comes to design and compability. But as long as this pulldown problem (if it is indeed a real problem and not just something that I made up =)) exists I guess I have to stick to Windows and just drag drop files (to Mediplayer classic) or perhaps MediaPortal but I really don´t like messing around that much with all the codecs for everything... Bottom line, I would really like to use xbmc cause I think it´s great. But for now, I can´t.
Thanks